Classics in Russia 1700-1855: Between Two Bronze Horsemen (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)
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The author shows how the history of the classical tradition in Russia cannot be separated from the history of Russia's orientation to Western Europe in general. His book, based on many little-known and previously unexplored Russian materials, is the result of the first comprehensive research on the study of the Greek and Roman classics in Russia, and its sociocultural --utopian as well as ideological-- function within the framework of Russian cultural and intellectual history and Russian educational policy from the accession of Peter the Great to the death of Nicholas I. A tradition does not exist apart from the people who adhere to it and the networks they create in order to ensure some kind of growth and continuity. Therefore the author has ordered his material into an interpretive framework based on a prosopographical approach towards the subject. Among specific writers and poets discussed are Pushkin, Gogol, Goncharov and Turgenev.
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Classics in Russia 1700-1855: Between Two Bronze Horsemen (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History),Marinus A. Wes,Brill Academic Publishers,9004096647,1801-1917,18th century,19th century,Civilization,Classical influences,Classicism,General,History,History: World,Interior Design - General,Literary Criticism,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Russia,Russian & Former Soviet Union,Russian Literature,Ancient Greece,Ancient Rome,European history: BCE to c 500 CE,History of ideas, intellectual history,Literary studies: classical, early & medieval,Russian,c 1700 to c 1800,c 1800 to c 1900
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